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Will Tuttle, dressed as George Washington, leads the inaugural Crossing Day parade in 2022. The event commemorates Washington’s crossing from West Ferry to East Ferry in 1781. George Washington’s crossing of the Delaware River in 1776 has been immortalized through history books, paintings, films, historic districts, statues and state parks. His crossing of Conanicut Island
The tourism bureau for Newport and Bristol counties is reporting that tourism and hospitality revenue saw an uptick in 2022, as did interest in Jamestown. Evan Smith, a Jamestown resident who serves as president and CEO of Discover Newport, said there was demand for inbound travel in the nine cities and towns across the two
Will Tuttle, co-owner of The General’s Crossing Brewhouse in Jamestown, at the Rhode Island Beer Fest on Saturday at the WaterFire Arts Center in Providence. Tuttle poured three beers from his brewery: a honey hibiscus wit, a Scottish export and a U.K. best bitter. Something local was brewing in Providence last weekend. The 10th annual
Columnist Russ Sloan recalls his years of writing columns and being involved in politics in this final opinion piece.
Daily Commercial readers met when former editor Tom McNiff introduced LZ LAKEHAWK in June of 2018. But as my crusty, crazy-like-a-fox mustang infantry officer pal, Steve Luhrsen, is fond of saying: "You don't have to invent Buzzard. He already exists." Yessir, he does. Born in Houston in the shadow of NASA ground control, the boy was born to fly. Young Kurt Lowell Miller, Sr. really wanted to be an astronaut. Badly. He applied for the program multiple times and pursued every possible venue for getting in through a side door by competing for scholarships in long-term space-study tracks, bu...